⁸ We are confident, yes, ^(A)well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

The Judgment Seat of Christ

⁹ Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. ^10 (B)For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ^(C)that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. ¹¹ Knowing, therefore, ^(D)the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that ^(A)if One died for all, then all died;

²¹ For ^(A)He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become ^(B)the righteousness of God in Him.